Ensure that every connected peripheral (printers, phones, tablets, everything that isn't required to operate the computer) is unplugged and try the process again.
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FlykOct 20 '13 at 19:31

At what point did the error appear (after downloading, after installing, after restarting, after getting devices ready, transferring settings, etc., etc.)? Did a blue screen occur at any point?
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BobOct 20 '13 at 19:34

Please include all relevant information in the question. The link to Evernote might break and then the question doesn't make sense anymore. It is also much more time-consuming for people to answer your question if they have to visit external sites to understand it.
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Sander SteffannOct 20 '13 at 20:10

@Bob Once the 8.1 was downloaded it asked for restart. Then set up process begin and at the 75% it gave me that error. The pc gets shut down at that point. No blue screen.
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SanketOct 22 '13 at 12:13

Flyk I made sure that there are no devices connected. @SanderSteffann Sorry for the inconvenience but putting complete windows log here wouldn't have been right either. Anyways what other details you need?
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SanketOct 22 '13 at 12:15

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I got the same error when I tried to upgrade. From what I could figure out by searching online, this has happened to systems upgrading from 8.1 Preview to 8.1 with a machine that is dual-booting Linux and Windows.

Is this the case with you as well? If yes, maybe the only way is to roll back to Windows 8, and then try again.
Another way you can do it is to replace GRUB2 with the stock Windows bootloader, and try again.